Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YD, UK.
E-mail: ias@lancaster.ac.uk
IAS Visitors
2008-
Dr Laurence Hemming
Dr. Laurence Paul Hemming is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies. He is an internationally regarded philosopher and specialist in the work of Martin Heidegger. His work, strongly in the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics, has encompassed readings of Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes and Nietzsche. His research interests range across the origin and history of politics, identity, subjectivity and divinity. He has published a number of books and articles in each of these areas and the relations between them. Two of his more recent monographs are ‘Heidegger’s Atheism: The Refusal of a Theological Voice’ and ‘Postmodernity’s Transcending: Devaluing God’. He is currently writing a study of the origin of the political, as well as developing collaborative and inter-disciplinary projects together with other institutions. The first of these examines Heidegger, Nietzsche and the ‘movement of nihilism’. He is coordinating a research project on work and the worker, engaging with Marx, Heidegger and Jünger. Laurence Hemming is a graduate of Oxford and Cambridge universities and was until recently Dean of Research for one of the smaller colleges of the University of London.
2007-08
Professor Andrew Clement
Andrew Clement is a Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. He participated in the IAS Annual Research Programme 2007/08 New Sciences of Protection: Designing safe Living.
2005-06
Professor Ram Roy Bhaskar
The Bhaskar lectures, January 2006
The
IAS hosted a series of lectures by the prominent philosopher, Professor
Ram Roy Bhaskar. Professor Bhaskar is recognized as a brilliant innovative
philosopher and originator of a new school of philosophy, critical realism,
destined to be seen, alongside empiricism, Kantianism, post-modernism,
hermeneutics and critical theory, as an essential ingredient in university
curricula in philosophy, the social sciences and the humanities generally. More»
2004-05
Professor Bo Stråth
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and History and Civilisation Department, EUI Florence
11 May 2005
Lecture: The Future of Europe: European Integration at the Crossroads
2003-04
Professor Karen Rader
Marilyn Simpson Chair for Science and Society at Sarah Lawrence College
28th June - 2nd July 2004
Thinking about Politics and Biology Today
Professor
Karen Rader, Marilyn Simpson Chair for Science and Society at Sarah Lawrence
College, has written widely on the relationship between genetics and American
culture and politics. Her many publications on the subject are synthesised
in Making Mice: Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research,
1900-1955 (Princeton, 2004). She has also been involved in the organisation
of both Wonderful: Visions of a Near Future, an exhibition on
the intersection of science and art that will be coming to Britain in
Winter 2004, and three public lecture series at Sarah Lawrence College,
on the convergence of the life sciences and contemporary cultural, social,
and political organisation (see http://pages.slc.edu/~krader/HSS2002-03.htm; http://pages.slc.edu/~krader/politicsoffood.html;
and http://pages.slc.edu/~krader/MakingThreats.htm).
Lancaster University can boast of a uniquely rich variety of approaches to analysing the contemporary convergence of biology and politics. Professor Karen Rader's appointment to a Visiting Professorship in the Institute of Advanced Studies provided a forum for integration of these diverse approaches and involved colleagues from across the institution.
During her visit, Professor Rader gave lectures on the themes of "The metaphor of domestication" and "Displaying life".
Professor Carolyn Cooper
Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica
8-16 December 2003
Carolyn
Cooper is a major figure in the study of multiethnic groups and their
forms of expression, specifically in the West Indies. Her book Noises
in their Blood: Orality, Gender and the "Vulgar" Body of Jamaican
Popular Culture (1993) has had a considerable impact on Caribbean
Studies and has established her global reputation. Her second book, Sound
Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large, is forthcoming and seems
set to confirm her impact in the field.
Professor Cooper participated as a keynote speaker at the IALIC Conference on The Intercultural Narrative, which took place at Lancaster University in December 2003. Her contribution there was complemented by a series of talks and readings which she gave under the auspices of the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe). In addition, the InterseXions Reading Group anticipated Professor Cooper's arrival by focussing on her work during October and November 2003.
Download a full report on Professor Cooper's visit in Word format.
Download a copy of the visit programme in Word format.
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